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The '''Clean Development Mechanism''' (CDM) allows industrialized countries required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the [[Kyoto Protocol]] (known as [[Annex I countries]]) to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries, as partial fulfillment of their obligations. '''Nuclear power plants''' are disallowed as CDM projects. "Parties included in Annex I are to refrain from using certified emission reductions generated from nuclear facilities to meet their commitments," ruled the seventh Conference of the Parties ([[COP7]]) to the [[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change]] (UNFCCC) in 2001. <ref>United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, "[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/cop7/13a02.pdf Report on the Conference of the Parties on Its Seventh Session, Held at Marrakesh from 29 October to 10 November 2001: Addendum - Part Two: Action Taken by the Conference of the Parties (pdf)]," United Nations, January 21, 2002. See Decision 17 / CP.7, page 20.</ref>